About Me

I'm Toby Champion, a software engineer and solutions architect from London, England. I know a lot about infrastructure, data science, the open source GIS stack, and OpenStreetMap. Also quite a bit about ontologies, authority control, knowledge graphs, Wikipedia, and Wikidata.

I've been using tech for social change since the mid 1990s, advocating for cyclists since the 1980s, recycling since the 1970s and learning about the history of Bainbridge Island since I moved here in 2011.

I've started several award-winning community projects, and been interviewed by Ph.D. students about my work with independent media in the UK. I've consulted on several international political science research projects at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, developing database applications, public websites, and desktop applications.

In 2007 I moved from the UK to Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, an intentional community in rural Missouri, where I wrote articles for Communities Magazine and contributed to a weekly newspaper column.